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To: little jeremiah
How about majority rules? If the vast majority of Board members want to hear prayers, why shouldn't they?

I actually am okay with that. However, the majority doesn't get to dictate what denominations or religions get access to perform public prayers at a government meeting. Either everyone gets the same privilege, or no one does.

If I were attending a religious gathering which preaches some things I do not follow or agree with, I am polite enough to just sit through it, as I sometimes did with my elderly mother.If I were attending a function and a prayer was offered by a religious representative of a religion I do not follow, I would politely sit there.

But this isn't a religious gathering or a private event. It's a meeting of a government body. That makes the situation quite different. This wiccan has no right to demand religious equality at a religious or private event. The case is different if we're talking about a government event.

88 posted on 08/10/2005 11:34:08 AM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: Modernman

You state:

"However, the majority doesn't get to dictate what denominations or religions get access to perform public prayers at a government meeting. Either everyone gets the same privilege, or no one does."

Upon what do you base this personal and arbitrary idea? In that case, New Guinea witchcraft practitioners (who make Wiccans look like wonderbread)*, every variety of Native American Indian shaman, peyote swallowers, snake handler people, Kachina dancers, Shiva worshippers, etc etc should all be allowed to do their thing.

The very idea is ridiculous on its face. Obviously those attending the meeting should be able to decide whose prayers they want to hear.

*And in case you say they are only in New Guinea, I'm sure there are a handful or two of followers of their practices - or at least admirers - in the US.)


91 posted on 08/10/2005 11:40:53 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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